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坐观成败

zuò guān chéng bài

4-character word Traditional 坐觀成敗

What 坐观成败 means

1. to sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides
2. to sit on the fence

The characters in 坐观成败

• 坐zuòto sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc)
• 观guānto look at; to watch; to observe
• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 败bàito defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)